No correction needed. That's exactly what I meant to say!!
Regards
HJR
"Brian Peasland" <dba_at_remove_spam.peasland.com> wrote in message
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> Howard can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe he was talking about
> backing up directly to disk, and then copying the backup to another
> location (SAN, tape, CD-ROM, whatever). I'm sure Howard didn't mean to
> imply that your only backup should be on the same server as your
> database. So make sure you have a copy of your backup somewhere else.
> However, it is handy if a copy of that backup resides on the same
> server. Should you have a problem, you don't need to run and find the
> tape you copied it to and restore from tape. Your recovery times are
> greatly improved if you have it available on disk, but don't rely on
> that in case of a total failure.
>
> HTH,
> Brian
>
>
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Received on Wed Nov 05 2003 - 12:58:01 CST
